Secure testing team - Jun 2010 - Bug#584401: CVE-2010-1620: Integer overflow

Package: gnustep-base
Version: 1.19.3-3
Severity: serious
Tags: security

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Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for gnustep-base.

CVE-2010-1620[0]:
| Integer overflow in the load_iface function in Tools/gdomap.c in
| gdomap in GNUstep Base before 1.20.0 might allow context-dependent
| attackers to execute arbitrary code via a (1) file or (2) socket that
| provides configuration data with many entries, leading to a heap-based
| buffer overflow.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-1620
    http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-1620


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